Dawn of Magic 2 Reviews

After playing this game for 1 day i can confirm its trash! Some cheap ripoff from loki/diablo. The quest line is weird and from very start its too long to enjoy the game. The npcs to players in locations is not balanced at all, sometimes the mobs are too strong sometimes way too weak. The combat is not balanced at all, the enemy selection is trash and the controls are shit, have to readjust them to your liking. For 2009 game its not too bad to be honest but even in 2009 there were games waayyyy more polished than this. Could have been a good game if they worked on it according to community feedback. Worth a try just to know what it is. not really enjoyable

1 is better, its all the same graphics and characters. just in DoM1 there are 3 chapters, and here is only 1.

This is to all of those people who couldn't give a damn about the fancy graphics and other pretty shit! This game has a solid story line and gameplay but on the other hand does have horrible dialogue but who cares right? Maybe the best combat system I've seen in a while for a an 3rd Person RPG, sweet magic academies which go from alchemy magic for those who want to look like an insect like thing to air magic to those of you who want to be an over powered bad ass runnin' around zapping people into meatballs. The rest you should find out without me talkin' about this. Solid game, get it !

This game will break on a dual monitor setup and has nasty load times every time you alt tab out of it. The gameplay itself is a mess with wide areas in which enemies will spawn randomly and pick fights with NPCS. Even important ones like merchants will just run off into the wilderness chasing blindly after enemies, dying somehwere in no mans land. This erratic NPC and enemy behaviour will turn into chaotic mass brawls whenever a quest spawns opponents in a city. Not that it would become any better out in the wilderness, as the randomly spawning enemies will make sure that even then every single encounter is a mess. The one stand out gimmick that magic you learn affecting the stats and the looks of your character is a neat idea, but ultimately pointless. The bonusses are sometimes utterly pointless-like having a reduced death penalty. In a game that has a hardcore mode. Those changes also come coupled with heavy downsides that usually have a higher negative impact than any advantage you might gain. Spells are on a global cooldown so you will usually see yourself spamming your standard attack spell over and over again until your enemies keel over. I can not recommend going into melee comabt at any point. TL;DR; This game is a mess. Avoid it.

Idk it's very unique world and mechanics. Gameplay wise just a diablo clone. But I played it as a child and it was amazing.

Really like the game, played the first one back in the day. Where can I find the first one? They should add if for buying

Story is amazing , and it's the best arpg that I have played since ages ... I really recommend you to play this kind of games, 12 school of spells , and most poerful spells are amazing if you upgraded the power of your spell. I dont beilive why many people doesnt like this game , maybe they are heretics :P

I feel if they could release dawn of magic 3 and added modding, i'd play it forever.. I'm just sad cus the only thing that was wrong with the first game and this one is the very limited item system. If i just added a few hundred unique items, sets and rune combos, the game would be amazing.. This could be done in 2 weeks of modding with games like titan quest and it'd make the game nearly perfect. I'm sad they didn't release the source but i heard how complicated and sometimes impossible the law makes it. Just bitterness and nostalgia honestly. Killing mobs in this game was insanely fun, the only thing lacking was the rewards. There is 1 staff i think it is lvl 10, and it's the best staff in the game for some reason. Probably cus they stopped there and didn't add any higher level better staffs? Another problem was that merchants could have unique items sold, and re-loading town to check merchants for unique items was best way to farm them. All easily fixed with modding. This is why i'm so sad. It feels like a cake has a tiny piece of poop on it and i'm not allowed to pull that piece of poop off to enjoy the cake. EDIT: Modding is possible for both games! I made a guide already on here too!

Sheesh, this goes back all the way to my childhood. I have played, and finished, Dawn of Magic 1. DoM2 is exactly the same as DoM1 when it comes to playstyle, character animation, spell/abilities. Heck, they remade the same game and added a 2 after it. The storyline aspect is lacking in this game. Do not play it if you are into games with a good story. This game is however recommended to people loving high customizability and patience (especially waiting for level ups so you can spend your scrolls). The playability in this game on modern PCs are also smooth, as long as you don't alt+tab, because getting back into the game has some known issues to cause a hell of a lot of FPS lag. My review is somewhat objective as I have finished the first installment. Give it time. Try the combat, you will find yourself mentally wrecked coming up with a good build - there are so many to choose from (my personal favourite is one of 3 builds: Water, focus on Ice Blast, Poison, focus on plague (which is superb for AoE fights but lacking in single-target fights due to high Global Cooldown, and finally earth magic) and blessing + fire + earth, play this as a melee strength/energy-stat character Tips for new guys: -Try out builds by making a network Free-for-all game, and play it solo. you won't be using your story character for this. -Stay the heck away from the spell "Infidel" unless you have high strength/energy -REDUCE enemy resistance, or Croud Control the heck out of them - will make your life easier. Some examples are the "Thick Blood" spell which works fantastically with Poison. -WATER BUBBLE! it negates Blessings/Curses -Dark path, Dark path, Dark path. Not only does it teleport you, it HEALS you. -Melt is also a fantastic option to have - pair it up with any less-frequently-used spell. If your life/ life potions are low, just highlight that spell on your action bar - helps a ton with HP regeneration

Despite all the hateful reviews, I bought this game. ( I also played Dawn of magic 1) While I didn't expect much from this, for some reason I got hooked. Some people say that the Story and Combat are garbage in this game. Well, the story makes no sense unless you've played the first one. And the combat is focused around magic, It's literarly impossible to play a Warrior or a Rougue in this game. It's revolved around magic. A Cool feature that is VERY rare is that the more magic you learn, the more pimped your character becomes. I just bought a tornado spell and my character grew wings. At first i was like wtf but then , when you think about it, it's a really cool adition. IMO it's worth the money, especially when it's on sale. Too bad nobody gives this a chance. =( My rating is 7/10 - good but definately needs some polish to get people's attention.